my shares and rejects are counted correctly.but my invalid rate goes higher and higher....(i use bithopper: but it gets higher even when it is connected to a different pool - bithopper saw you lagging - maybe its the way it is trying to "delag" you?)

Your invalid rate is indeed abnormally high. Only you and one other (<100Mh/s) user are currently experiencing through-the-roof invalid rates, so I would suspect the problem is with Bithopper. I have traced your submissions through our accounting pipeline, and everything checks out: In addition to the reported valid and stale shares you submit lots of invalid shares.

Note that you are effectively DOSing our servers . But at such a low rate, we'll let it slide for now I do suggest you use a different client.

Hashrate reported by ABCPool is currently based on all shares submitted, even the invalid ones. With this we intended to approximate the rate reported by mining clients. For clients like Phoenix the current approach approximates client-reported hashrate best, because those clients have actually done the work for invalid shares they submit.

Your invalid rate is indeed abnormally high. Only you and one other (<100Mh/s) user are currently experiencing through-the-roof invalid rates, so I would suspect the problem is with Bithopper. I have traced your submissions through our accounting pipeline, and everything checks out: In addition to the reported valid and stale shares you submit lots of invalid shares.

Note that you are effectively DOSing our servers . But at such a low rate, we'll let it slide for now I do suggest you use a different client.

Hashrate reported by ABCPool is currently based on all shares submitted, even the invalid ones. With this we intended to approximate the rate reported by mining clients. For clients like Phoenix the current approach approximates client-reported hashrate best, because those clients have actually done the work for invalid shares they submit.

The other user is probably me. I'm showing 3276 lifetime invalid shares, but I've only submitted 499 shares so far this morning after signing up. I can't use another client so I'm disabling abcpool for now. I would like to figure this out though.

Would you guys be willing to show the buffer amount you have for the pool within your stats page? Is there a reason for not having this transparency?

Also, I don't see a found blocks page. Do you not show when you find blocks?

I guess these things are not absolutely necessary to run a pps pool... but the more transparency the better.

Tbh it doesn't matter in pure PPS as long as it keeps paying.. Found blocks are irrelevant to the minerThere is no info or blocks to withhold, miners just agree to submit shares and get paid for them.. In this case even stales

He can keep whatever surplus he gets & there is nothing suspicious about it. Unlike prop or *mpps pools, the found BTC are not the property of miners, but rather profits of the operator who can decide what he wants to do with them

Would you guys be willing to show the buffer amount you have for the pool within your stats page? Is there a reason for not having this transparency?

Tbh it doesn't matter in pure PPS as long as it keeps paying..

Interesting suggestion gigasvps. We don't actually have a fixed buffer; we rebalance the system wallet periodically to align it with outstanding balances and future member earnings.

Your posts have me thinking about adding some kind of solvency indicator and a failsafe that shuts down the pool in case wallet balance threatens to creep below the member balances. That way miners can be confident that they can withdraw their earnings; even if the entire pool management should die in an air disaster while on corporate retreat.

Regardless of any promises made by us or any other pool, we advise our miners to withdraw their earnings regularly. For reasons mentioned in another thread, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34282.0, ABCPool does not intend to be a bank. We don't want to be holding on to large amounts of BTC for our members.

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Also, I don't see a found blocks page. Do you not show when you find blocks?

I guess these things are not absolutely necessary to run a pps pool...

We know that our stats are currently pretty basic. We plan to introduce extra stats on the individual level, so users have more insight into their performance. We expect to work on that after this week.

I'd really like it if you could remove the fees on manual withdrawals.

The fees are intended as a deterrent from spamming the blockchain (and our ledger) with micro-transactions. As soon as the exchange rate gets sufficiently higher we will consider lowering the fee-boundary.

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Lots of pools allow the option to cash out when you have at least 0.01 BTC with no fees.

Your site seems to log me out very frequently. Is it possible to increase the login timeout?

I hate it when sites do that.. And you're absolutely right: I've also noticed it myself a couple of times on ABCPool. I'll have a look at it tomorrow to see if I can extend the session expiration time.